Morning journal and courier., 1887-08-08
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Engraved visiting cards at Dormana.
 Wm. F. Sternberg and family are at Mor- ris Cove for month.
 The regular meeting of the board of coun- cilmen occurs tonight.
 The new elevator at Peck Bros shop went into operation yesterday.
 Attorney Pfunkett has gone to Washing ton, to return Wednesday.
 Company A, Twenty-seventh c. V., have their annual reunion next Wednesday.
 Hartford lodge of Odd Fellows will go to Glen Island in the latter part of this month.
 On Saturday the county commissioners paid their regular monthly visit to the County jail.
 Tomorrow the annual session of the State council, O. U. A. M., will be held in New Britain.
 E. H. Barnum, of the firm of George filings Sons Co.,, and family at Ocean Grove, N. J.
 Dennis Lyons, aged twenty-three, single, was drowned while bathing at Willimantic Saturday evening.
 Two new members were added to Admiral tions were received.
 The Sons of Veterans base ball club of this city play the Bridgeport S. of V. nine in Bridgeport to-day.
 Mrs. Irving Rogers, of Sylvan avenue, and Miss Gum, of Milford, have gone to sojourn while at Bayport, L. I.
 The bakers greatly enjoyed their picnic to Basserman's Park Saturday. They made good display in the parade.
 Mir. George Hall and brother, of this city, have taken the Chief Webster cottage at the shore for two weeks occupancy.
 Large numbers of little bluefsh are caught at the dock at Stiles Park and one gentle man caught fifty Saturday morning.
 St. Patrick's Y NIL. association and their many friends make aa excursion to Coney Island next Wednesday by the Elm City.
 A number of the Catholic priests of this city will be present at the corner stone of the new Catholic church at Litchfeld to-day.
 Salsbury's Troubadours will play their new bright three-act comedy farce called ''The Running Bird" in this city in the early fall
 E. H. Sperry has broken ground on York street, opposite the Heaton residence, for a three-story double residence to cost about $1s,OOO.
 James Gallagher, jr. witnessed the race for the Goelet cup at Newport He was on the Nervana, MT. Halls yacht. He returns about Thursday.
 MT. M. c. Perry, the fancy goods mer- chant on Chapel street, returns this week from three weeks stay at Middletown Springs, Vermont.
 O. D. Peck of Chicago, brother of Henry F. Peck, president of the Peck Bros. & Co.,, arrived in this city Saturday for a visit with his brother of two weeks. The Twenty-seventh c. V. reunite at Paw son Park September 2. The affair will be one of special interest, it being the twenty l fifth anniversary of the regiment. The damage done in this city by Satur- 1 days thunder storm was light. The light ming struck Paul Wells house on St. John street. But little damage was done. Mr. Edward Russell of Russell Brothers, the butter dealers on State street, is with his family occupying the large Goodsen cottage on Beach street, Savin Rock, for the season. \ Mrs. Frank Cable, of Birmingham, is in the ! city as the guest of Miss Sadie Greedy of Chestnut street. Mrs. Cable is stopping here preparatory to trip to Saratoga and other watering places. Mir. L. S. Punderson, who has removed his business to quarters in the Bradley build ing, corner of State and Court, is having an elevator built on the State street side of the l premises. Captain Gallagher of the Montgomery Guard of Portland, Me-, died last week. He I was commander of the company when it en- tertained the Sarsfelds few years ago and I many friends here will regret his death. Miss Sophie Mallory, aged eighteen, love- ly young lady and a member of the High | school, died at the hospital on Saturday of | dysentery. She was the daughter of Ed | ward B. Mallory of 1O9 Portsea street and | was secretary of the Christian Endeavor society of the Howard avenue Congregational church. The Dwight Place church male quartette- Mir. Langdale, MT. Bennett, MT. Smith and Dr. Kellogg leader-spent Sunday at the Wards Island hospital. A very pleasant and enjoyable concert was given in the chapel and wards to the six hundred patients. Dr. F. L. Barnum, formerly house surgeon in that hospital, now of this city, accompa- nied the quartette.